- How different is your modern culture from the sawi tenents?
Technological advancement is just a pretense to hide the fact that there is not much difference between a cannibalistic-based culture and that of the modern culture. How different are we from them? The Sawi and we are not that different. It is hard to admit and realize that sure, we have life spans that exceed 70 years, machines that practically do everything for us, and medical advancements, apart from our external aspects, our internal features and actions are indeed dreadfully similar. The Sawi have traditions that base treachery and betrayal which are praised when acted upon enemies. This tradition of ‘fattening with friendship’ is not limited to just the Sawi tribes. In the modern world, we often see people act based on taking advantage of each other and performing betrayal. In fact, maybe the modern culture and its dwellers have a sense of more evil within themselves rather than the Sawi. Despite the fact that our world has established laws and international agreements, and persist that we are civilized, we still do not prevent a primitive factor of crime. The Sawi, however, even without the aid of ‘for sure’ laws; they may prevent the very act of violation with a single word. The book stated that in truth, the Sawi did not ‘enjoy’ war with other tribes. Notorious reputation was raised just to keep protection of there own kind. The modern culture, however, creates war without an intention. It is justly hard to admit that without our flamboyant outward appearance, our camouflage of laws and technology, we are committing a more serious crime compared to the Sawi. Sometimes, it is us that function with greater motives that are evil and with greater amounts of betrayal. The Sawi may perform these traditions in necessity while we perform sin without really a motivation
3 comments:
Kung Min WHERE IS YOUR WORK? MRS.MC!!!!!
Kyun Min I take it all back! Excellent ideas and you blog is really shaping up to being a very good site. Your approach to the material is sound and I really enjoyed your first post as well. Mrs.Mc
I agree that in the heart we may not be so different from the Sawi people in that we still betray others and do harm to others to survive or rise in status. However, because of the social structures and laws, because of educations we get, much of our barbaric side is hidden and stowed away; we do not show the barbarism. And so long have we been educated in the same way in terms of moral, except for some maniacs who are out of their minds, we do not take joy in betraying others and eating fellow men. I can see that we will be pretty much the same as the Sawi men if we were educated and raised the same way, but the difference in education really does make difference.-Andrew Seong
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